Cabinet.



U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM G. HULLHORST, OF TOLEDO, OI-IIO.

CABINET.

srncrrrcn'rron forming part of Letters Patent No. 72 dated April 1903- Application filed January 29, 1900. Serial No. 3,080. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that .1, WILLIAM G. HULL- HORST, a citizen'of the United States, residing at Toledo, Lucas' county, Ohio, have in-.

to fall upon the floor or to become wedged or' jammed, so as to resist their return to closed position, and thus the rear part of thedrawer is rendered almost inaccessible and is usually in the dark when the drawer is drawn out as far as practicable. Efforts have been made to overcome this objection by pivoting the drawer at one side in such a manner that the drawer may be swung out from its'casing and to one side thereof in the arc ofa circle of which the pivot is the center. -This, how ever, compels the operator to move out of the way of the swinging drawer, and in many instances such drawers cannot be used should the article of furniture be placed with its end in which the pivot is located against a side wall.

My invention relates to and its object is to provide means for overcoming the objections and difficulties here indicated, and more particularly to provide cabinets and the like with drawers which may be readily and easily swung, so that the drawer when open will stand clear from its casing in front thereof and so that the entire area thereof will be exposed without the possibility of its falling or coming in contact with a side wall.

In the accompanying drawing, which is a perspective view of my device and which is made part hereof, I have illustrated my invention, byway of example, as applied to a dentists cabinet.

In the drawing, a is the casing or frame of a cabinet, and b the rails or bars between which the drawers are disposed.

c is the front of. the drawer, and 61 its bottom. The latter piece is semicircular, or nearly so, in general outline, and the sides and back of the drawer are comprised in the piece or pieces 6, curved approximately in the arc of a circle. The front of the drawer,

at or near the middle of its length, is pivotally secured, as atf, to the two rails 19, betweenv which it is disposed. A convenient and ornamental mode of pivotally securing drawer is pivotally secured in place and may be swung in a horizontal plane, so that the entire drawer and its contents will stand out in front ofthe cabinet and be exposed. In-

stead of the pins here referred to (which are not shown inthe drawing, but which will be understood without-illustration) one or more vertical rods passingthrough the escutcheons or through the rails and the front of the drawer may be employed.

In practice it is foundconvenient to allow the ends of the front of the drawer to project slightly beyond the bottom and sides of the drawer and to place the pivots slightly to one side of the center of the front of the drawer, as shown at f. A stop his placed within the casing of the cabinet in such position as to engage the inner side of that end of the drawer which is farthest from the pivot. It will be seen that when the drawer is swung upon its pivot, the drawer being pivoted slightly oif the center, one end will miss the stop, while the other end when the drawer is closed will engage the stop, and thus the drawer will always be swung in the right direction and when closed will be held in proper relation with the remaining parts of the arti- 016 of furniture to which it belongs.

In the example shown in the drawing the front of the drawer and'the bars or rails are curved or bowed outwardly at center. The

advantage of this construction is that the drawer is when swung into open position placed entirely clear of its case, except at the middle of the drawer-front, where the opposing curves of the drawer-front and of the rails or bars project toward or touch each other.

Having described my invention, what I which pivotal connection is disposed slightly claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, to one side of the middle of the front of the is drawer, whereby said drawer may be swung In a cabinet, a frame, a drawer in said in a horizontal plane substantially beyond I5 5 frame, said drawer havinga semicircular botthe front plane of the cabinet, and whereby tom and a semicircular rim which form the l the drawer when swung upon said pivot moves sides and back of the drawer, said drawer laterally in relation to the frame.

having at the middle of its front a short out- WILLIAM G. HULLl-IORS'I. ward bend corresponding with a like bend in In presence of '0 the frame, a pivotal connection between the \VILBER A. OWEN,

frame and the drawer at the short. bend, I

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